are going to say -- are going to be upset that paul plagiarized and wrote in their outlet. i think people are going to look through the whole body of work, especially people who might be concerned that paul plagiarized when he wrote for their specific publication. >> all right. thank you so much for coming in. senator rand paul will join wolf blitzer in the next hour of cnn. you should stay tuned for that. i will be back at 11:00 p.m. eastern or 8:00 p.m. pacific with a live special on the election results from across the country. for now, that is it for "the lead." i'm jake tapper. turning you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." thanks for watching. happening now, new documents from inside the obama care war room reveal administration concerns about more problems beyond a broken website. americans on edge after the latest high profile shooting incident. a gunman opening fire in a crowded shopping mall. is this the new normal?

and newt gingrich may be full of praise for chris christie on this election day but wait until you hear what christie had to say about gingrich. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we begin this hour with breaking news, just coming into "the situation room" about serious chemical weapons. after the threat of a u.s. military strike this summer, the regime of bashar al assad had apparently been cooperating with international teams working to destroy the country's stockpile of chemical weapons, but now, there are some disturbing new developments. let's go straight to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, you're picking up word of new classified intelligence that syria might not necessarily be giving up its chemical weapons. what are you learning? >> reporter: wolf, there is in fact, according to several u.s. officials i've spoken to, new highly classified intelligence that indicates bashar al assad might not be ready, might not

even declare and be ready to destroy his entire inventory of chemical weapons stockpiles. officials are looking at all of this minute by minute now, and what they are telling me, one official is saying quote, there are various threads of information that would shake our confidence. he goes on to say they've done things recently that suggest syria is not ready to get rid of all their chemical weapons. why would syria be doing this? what are they up to? the intelligence analysis i am told is that assad may want to hold on to some of his chemical weapons as a hedge against israel and israel's nuclear weapons, as long as israel is next door, assad feels he will need to hold on to some of those chemical weapons. where they are right now, how much remains to be determined. but this is something of great concern to the obama administration, because of course, the international policy agreed upon now is that assad will give it all up, will turn

it all over and it will all be destroyed, except maybe it won't. wolf? >> are there any indications, barbara, the pentagon might get more involved? >> reporter: well, on the technology side, which is very important, defense secretary chuck hagel earlier today said that the u.s. has some technology to offer for the destruction of the weapons that are declared. i think we have a pretty interesting photo to show you. this is a new defense department system, a new piece of technology that can be shipped overseas to a third country that would take the chemical weapons, basically i won't even go into the details, but chemical weapons go in one side, come out the other side rendered safe. the chemical weapons will be shipped out of syria, they will be destroyed in the third country. the urgency now is to find a country that will take them and allow them to be destroyed inside those borders. but this other piece of information that assad will not, may not declare all of his stockpiles, of great concern and

something that is still developing at this hour. >> a real developing story. barbara, thanks very much. let's move on to other important news. papers the obama administration once kept secret showed that a broken website and broken promise about keeping your insurance plan may be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to obama care problems. house republicans have now released new documents shedding new light on the botched health care rollout. joe johns is here poring over these documents. are these problems worse than we initially thought? >> well, 175 pages of documents, in fact, from administrative meetings. it turns out that it was not just the website, but half of the call center calls having issues in the first few days. keep in mind it was in the first few days that the obama people were pushing callers to the call centers, which had been handling the bulk of them over the past few weeks. the problems have since been corrected, but that technical chaos at the beginning, even more problematic. >> there are new concerns about,

what, security of these -- of this website? >> absolutely. it appears they scrambled to fix a flaw that gave some people signing up on the documents the opportunity to find out who this person is. there's one guy in south carolina who got information from a guy in north carolina, and alerted everyone that he had gotten the wrong information. they now say they have actually fixed that. >> now we've heard from the obama administration, first estimates of how many people they would really like to see enrolled by the end of this month. >> absolutely. marilyn tavenner, the head for the centers for medicare and medicaid services, talked about that today at a senate hearing. listen. >> what's the target enrollment number for the end of november for the exchange? >> for the end of november? >> yes, ma'am. >> i think that we were looking at between october and november, i think that number was i want to say around 800,000.

>> so it's the first sign of what the administration wants and where they want to be by the end of november. keep in mind, they have yet to reveal any numbers of actual enrollment and won't, until mid-november. but if you look at the number they have just released, 700,000, that's just the people who have signed up to start looking for plans but haven't necessarily enrolled. the administration warns that the numbers at the outset certainly are going to be low and now we have a measure of the expectation. some of the other numbers that caught our ear today at this hearing, alaska, the senator there said they had just three enrollees but rhode island has more success, with 4,000, according to the senator. >> people who actually purchased new insurance. thanks very much, joe johns with that part of the story. thank you very much. >> many americans woke up today to learn about a high profile shooting, this time a young gunman dressed in black walked into a massive new shopping mall in new jersey, near closing time. he began firing but apparently

did not aim at any of the thousands of shoppers. as police rushed in, the 20-year-old gunman holed up in a back room, then turned his weapon on himself. today, his family is speaking out. >> my brother intended to harm nobody else but himself. he just sadly decided to make an act of -- an act of i guess self-indulgence by taking his own life publicly and it's a tragedy to us all. >> there were no other casualties except the shattered nerves of more americans who once again are forced to wonder if this is the nation's new normal. brian todd is here in "the situation room" looking into this. what are you seeing? >> there is an impression now that there has been one high profile shooting after another in the u.s. some of that has to do with media attention and perpetrators wanting that attention. either way, as one expert says, it's giving americans a collective case of post-traumatic stress.

panic and terror inside a new jersey shopping mall. bullets fly but no one except the shooter is hurt. >> we heard four gun shots and everybody was scared, everybody was panicked. >> reporter: authorities now believe the gunman only intended to kill himself. days earlier, a man wielding an assault rifle kills a tsa officer at the los angeles international airport. every time we turn on our tvs, it seems there's more breaking news coverage of a high profile shooting. is this the new normal in america, this trend of people wanting to go out in a blaze of glory? >> it's not the new normal. since the 1980s, we have seen crimes exactly like this, angry psychotic depressed young men, mentally ill, haven't been treated, with a triggering event that causes them to immerse into rage want to go out in a blaze of glory. >> reporter: criminal psychologist alan littman says often at the peak of that range, these people have easy access to the deadliest weapons. collectively it's put america on edge. in connecticut, a student's halloween costume put a college

campus on lockdown for hours. in california, a sheriff's deputy mistakenly shot and killed a teenager who carried a fake assault rifle. even an overnight break-in at a colorado middle school with the perpetrators brandishing bebe guns prompted police to surround the building. >> we're jumpy because the impression has been created by interest groups that any mentally ill person might jump out around a corner and harm someone. that is false. >> reporter: why can't gun violence be solved politically in america? >> even democrats don't want to do this. you have democrats who are representing rural areas where the right to have the gun is sacred and no one wants to put limits on that. >> reporter: forget about a ban on assault weapons and even lesser measures like tightening gun registration, closing sales loopholes at gun shows and more stringent background checks on mental health and criminal history are not likely to pass in congress any time soon. analysts say there just isn't

the political will to do that. >> statistically, have mass the shooings increased in the united states in recent years? >> you would think with all this attention, they have. but experts say statistics say they have had only a slight tick up since the 1980s and overall, national rates of gun homicides have decreased sharply since the 1990s. a lot of this has to do with the attention paid to the symptoms, the media attention, but the overall gun violence in this country has decreased since the 1990s. >> brian todd, thanks very much for that report. by the way, the attorney general eric holder is insisting gun violence can't be something americans start getting used to and that the government isn't going to stop fighting it. here's what he told our justice reporter, evan perez, just a little while ago in an exclusive interview. >> aurora, newtown, the navy yard. what can we do about this? is this the new normal for this country? >> it can't be the new normal. it cannot be something that we accept. there is too much gun violence. there are common sense gun

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it's election day in america. with major contests that could have a significant impact on how the country is governed. we're watching governors' races in two critical states, in new jersey, republican chris christie may use his re-election campaign as a launching point for a white house run. in virginia, a very close friend of bill clinton takes on a tea party favorite, and the biggest

of the big city mayor jobs now open in new york city. we're deployed to bring you the kind of coverage that only cnn can deliver. let's start with cnn's jake tapper, in new jersey covering the gubernatorial race there. jake? >> reporter: greetings from asbury park, new jersey. i'm here where governor chris christie will be delivering his either acceptance speech or something else later this night after the polls come in. he is favored by double digits in every single poll over his democratic challenger, state senator barbara buono. as you point out, the significance of what happens here in the garden state is far beyond what happens tonight. governor christie is thought to be entertaining hopes of running for president in 2016, a possibility at least, and the question is can he rack up enough of a margin of victory here in a blue state that obama won by 18 points last year, to make the case to republicans that he can lead the party out of the white house wilderness, that he can win over independents, women, minorities,

traditionally democratic voters, and get the republicans back in the white house. that's the question that will be his pitch if he is able to significantly win this evening. >> jake had a terrific interview with governor christie today. we will run it in our next hour. jake, stand by for that. let's go to virginia right now. dana bash is over at terry mcauliffe headquarters in northern virginia. he's the democratic candidate. he's looking pretty good but it's not a done deal, is it, dana? >> reporter: not a done deal at all. but the fact is that he has been pulling ahead in most polls over the past several weeks, even month or so, with a fairly comfortable lead in those polls but obviously much tighter than what jake was talking about in the state of new jersey. this is the commonwealth of virginia, a very fascinating governor's race every four years. four years ago, it was because it really was the harbinger for what we saw with the tea party movement sweeping the house in 2010, when the current governor mcdonnell won here.

now, you hear democrats and republicans making the case on either side that you're likely to hear nationally over the next year again heading into the midterm elections, democrats, terry mcauliffe, the democratic candidate here, saying that this is all about trying to do away with the tea party extremists, trying to do away with the whole idea of obstructionism which he accuses the republican of and on the republican side, particularly in the past few weeks, they have been trying to make this all about obama care and the fact that obama care is broken. so if in fact terry mcauliffe does go ahead and win the governor's race, you are absolutely going to hear democrats make the case that they believe that all of these problems with obama care certainly are troubling politically but maybe not fatal when it comes to the politics of the elections upcoming. >> dana, thank you. polls close in virginia 7:00 p.m. eastern. let's stay in virginia.

we are at ken cuccinelli's headquarters. they have an uphill struggle over there. >> reporter: they do. jake mentioned that acceptance speech in new jersey. most people here, most republicans are bracing for a concession speech. look, the republicans here behind the scenes are already starting to point fingers, but they are also pointing to a number of external factors that have held ken cuccinelli down throughout this race. an ethics scandal that sidelined the governor, bob mcdonnell, who was popular. he hasn't been able to help cuccinelli raise money and appeal to the business community here. there was the government shutdown. there has been spending, vast spending on the democratic side, four to one just in the last week, democrats and their allies have been out spending republicans. you have seen labor unions, you have seen environmental groups, planned parenthood, come in heavy for terry mcauliffe who as dana mentioned is a prolific fund-raiser in a state with lacks campaign fund-raising laws. that's one major factor in this race here. >> let's go to new york city. don lemon is standing by.

hard to believe there hasn't been a democratic mayor in new york which is a pretty democratic city, in a long time. that's about to change, right? >> reporter: yes, it is about to change, if it goes the way the polls are going. 65% to 24% democrat bill de blasio to joe lhota, the republican here. it has been two decades since there has been a democratic mayor in new york city and that was david dinkins. listen, bill de blasio has been running as an unapologetic liberal, unapologetic progressive, he says, and he says he will bring in a new era of liberalism to new york city. he's running on things like universal pre-k, charter schools, income inequality, really saying he is going to change the way that things are done under bloomberg and also running, saying he's going to get rid of that controversial police tactic in new york city called stop and frisk. so he says he believes the people here have bloomberg fatigue and he has been running

very successfully on that and if things continue the way they are, he's going to be the winner tonight. >> we will check in with you often. thanks very much. coming up, we are just getting in the first exit polls from today's races. you're about to find out, including me, i'm about to find out as well, what the voters are thinking as they cast their ballots. john king is standing by at the magic wall. plus, chris christie's harsh advice to mitt romney about newt gingrich. the "crossfire" cohost. he is here. we will talk about that and much more. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." ♪

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all right. we're getting breaking news into cnn. the first exit polls on this election day showing what's on the voters' minds as they cast their ballots. our chief national correspondent john king is over at the magic wall with the new information. john, what are we learning? >> first and foremost we want to make clear we will be very careful. the polls are still open in virginia and new jersey and elsewhere so we will share some of our exit poll data as you said, what's on people's minds, what's driving their votes. i want to be careful not to get into actually what the early exit polls are showing about the results. look at this in the state of virginia. obviously very close to the

nation's capital. a lot of government workers, especially in northern virginia, lot of defense workers. did the shutdown affect anyone in your household? the government shutdown. it was a big issue in that race. 32% of the voters in virginia today say yes, it directly affected someone in their household. two-thirds saying no. one of the big issues in the virginia governor's race. the government shutdown. another one was the president's health care law. the republican candidate ken cuccinelli among the first attorneys general, a republican to challenge obama care, to say it was unconstitutional. look at this. an even divide in the state of virginia, 50% of the voters today opposed the president's health care plan. 48% support the president's health care plan. again, that was a key issue in the race between the republican ken cuccinelli and the democrat, terry mcauliffe. what about the president's job performance rating in the state of virginia? remember, the president made history by winning virginia in 2008 and again in 2012. it's a key state for republicans in presidential politics. the president, his own performance at issue in this race for governor. 53% disapprove of the president's job right now, his job performance, so he's under water, if you will, in the state

of virginia. 46% approving. you go back through all of those, what do you get? the president's view of obama care, view of the president's job performance, pretty evenly divided virginia electorate on the big issues and the president, we'll see how they impact the turnout and the decision ultimately in that race for governor. >> what are the exit polls showing us about the voters in new jersey? >> obviously the preelection polls showed a big chris christie lead. let's take a look at what voters are thinking about as they go and vote today to determine, decide whether their republican governor deserves re-election in a blue state. nearly half of the voters today say the economy is the biggest issue in the race for governor. another 24% say taxes. so pocketbook issues dominating the new jersey electorate today as they decide whether to keep chris christie for four more years in the state of new jersey. look at this. it is not an optimism electriore when it comes to the economy. nearly 9 in 10 new jersey voters worry about the direction of the national economy over the next year. a bit of pessimism driving their vote as they look at the national economy and decide who

they want to be their governor in the state of new jersey. again, let's take a look at this. remember, the president was slightly under water in the state of virginia. he's slightly over water, 51% approve, 49% disapprove, but again, a pretty evenly divided electorate in this state. the president won big, remember, twice, the state of new jersey. the president's job performance. here's one more, a lot of people are going to be talking about tonight. chris christie says if i win big, that makes me a formidable republican presidential contender. we're asking people as they vote today in new jersey, if this were the lineup in 2016, hillary clinton, versus chris christie, how would they vote? chris christie can make the case he would run stronger than mitt romney. he would run stronger than john mccain against the democrat but you see hillary clinton with a slight edge at least in the early exit polling when voters in new jersey today are being asked even as we expect them to re-elect chris christie, clinton versus christie, close race but the democrat on top in a reliably blue state. >> fascinating numbers from new jersey and virginia. john, thanks very much. john will be with us throughout the night, of course, for more

exit poll information, by the way, watch the bottom of your screen all night long here on cnn, on this election day. you can see all the numbers coming in. let's discuss what we just heard and more. joining us, our cnn chief political analyst, gloria borger, along with cnn's "crossfire" co-host, van jones, former advisor to president obama and newt gingrich, the former speaker of the house. i want to get to all that. newt, i got to ask you about in this new book, you have gone through it "double down," chris christie is clearly going to win tonight in new jersey. i don't think there's a whole lot of surprise there. he has some pretty harsh words, at least the authors quote him as saying harsh things about you when you were running for the republican presidential nomination in 2012. advice he gave mitt romney, for example, i'm quoting now, get out of your crouch and kick the -- out of this guy. that's what you should do. he's a joke and you're allowing him to be taken seriously. at one point, according to this book, christie thought you were the worst human being he had

ever met in politics but now you're writing nice things about him. >> well, first of all, the book is a collection of gossip and i don't take much of it very seriously. i think this city's ability to avoid thinking by reading this kind of junk. chris christie was for romney. we terrified romney. there was a "new york times" story right after south carolina where one of his aides said to him if you don't eviscerate gingrich, you're not going to be the nominee. now, they were that frightened so i think this is a little like locker room talk. here's coach christie saying to romney you can do it, et cetera. i don't take any of it very seriously. >> have you spoken to chris christie? do you want to make nice with him? does he want to make nice with you? >> look, i'm here in my role at "crossfire." i'm going to tell the truth, whether i like christie or dislike christie, i want to talk about what i think realistically the size of his win means and what he can do. i don't worry about stuff like this. >> the authors of this new book will be here in "the situation

room" on thursday. you've got a new book out, too called "breakout." we'll talk about that. van, the president keeps changing the line if you like your health policy, you can keep it. if you like your doctor, you can keep it. now there's a nuance, a significant one. a big "if" in there. listen to what he said. >> if you have or had one of these plans before the affordable care act came into law and you really like that plan, what we said was you could keep it if it hasn't changed since the law's passed. >> that was a new clause that was added. we didn't hear that in 2009, 2010 when he was winning support for the legislation. jay carney had this explanation when he was questioned by jim acosta. listen to this. >> so if the president could go back, he would use the same words again? >> well, the president, as

awesomely powerful as the office is, can't go back in time. >> what do you make of this? >> look, this is painful stuff, obviously the president was overly broad in his assurances. >> did he know he was not telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> if you look at the way the law was written, there were guarantees in the law to prevent this outcome. you look at the regs, it gets iffy. if you look at what the insurance companies are doing, he was obviously wrong. >> there are people saying give it a little clause in there, if you like your health care plan, you probably can keep it but that doesn't have the ring to it, you can keep it. >> listen, he was overly broad in his assurance. i think democrats look kind of foolish when we get out here and try to twist the words. i think at the end of the day, though, what he was trying -- the point he was trying to make is an important one. we are talking about going from a system where 14% of americans were locked out, shut out, being denied, being duped, being dumped, to a system now where that's not going to be happening. 3% of americans, though, are in

some danger. it was 14% before. now it's 3%. we got to fix that 3%. i want to get beyond the kind of geez, the president should have spoken better. let's get together and fix that 3% so 100% of americans feel good about this. >> already in kentucky, in one of the senate races out there, gloria, republicans are using the president's words to go after democratic candidates. how worried, let me play this clip from this ad going against the democratic senatorial candidate in kentucky. >> if you like your private health insurance plan, you can keep your plan. >> now a shocking nbc news report. obama knew all along that wasn't true. >> all right. how worried should democrats be right now because of what's going on on this? >> well, look, i think democrats should be worried about obama care on a lot of levels. this is one of them, right? they should be worried that the website isn't working. you saw last week, wolf, that about ten of them, seven of them up for re-election in the senate

said to the president delay open enrollment and i think this does speak to the president's credibility. i think that's the large issue here. wolf, we went back and we looked at the president's trust numbers from when he was first elected, and he was in the 70% range. when you ask people do you trust your new president. now that's down in some polls to just around 50%, if not a little less. so this affects the president's credibility and those numbers could continue to head south if people believe that he was sloganeering rather than telling them the truth. >> let me show these numbers, then i will ask newt gingrich to respond how is the president handling his job. this new gallup tracking poll that came out today, only 39% approve. that's pretty low. what does he do to fix this? >> i think he's got a huge problem first of all because out of pride or something, he can't be honest. i mean, they're now in effect

lying about having lied. that's what you saw last night in the president's speech. that's what you saw today with jay carney. chris christie had pretty good advice for the president. relax and say i blew it. he blew it at least 29 times we know for sure, where he personally said no one will lose their insurance. but let me give you an example how real this is. the moffitt cancer treatment center in tampa is probably the most sophisticated in florida. it's just been dropped by united health out of the option you're allowed to choose. so you won't be able to go there if you take that particular option. i think people need to understand, this is about real change that affects people's lives. >> hold your thought for "crossfire." we're out of time on this segment. i know both of you will have a lot more 6:30 p.m. eastern. don't forget, newt's got a new book "breakout" we will talk about in the days to come. thanks very much for that. there's much more ahead. "crossfire" coming up 6:30 p.m. eastern right after "the situation room." they have a good solid debate coming up on this election day. when we come back, we have a

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>> translator: they are closing hair salons. women can't go out at certain times. >> reporter: this is a school which indoctrinates the youngest. at the weekend, one nearby town awoke to signs saying thieves would have their hands cut off. in this graphic video filmed by activists, they have their own form of justice. in may, they swept in, their brutality an antidote to the weak and chaotic rebels. you can hear the crowd's fury for blood revenge here. soon, their heavy hand sparked protests. today, locals complain using graffiti. they don't dare protest and only dare film this at night.

the revolution sprang to life because the regime tortured boys for graffiti. now, al qaeda does the same and many wonder if the revolution itself is dead. >> shocking story, that is. just ahead, very different story. new allegations of plagiarism against senator rand paul. he's standing by to join me live. we'll discuss. plus, an exclusive interview with new jersey governor chris christie. he speaks to our own jake tapper about his own political future.

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drug use. and now he has acknowledged it. and he says he's not stepping down. other news. we're watching the governor's races in virginia and new jersey, the mayoral race in new york city and we're waiting for the results to come in. and more from senator rand paul. i want to get to these election, what they might mean to the country, but you've got to respond to these planlerrism accusations. who is to blame here? verbatim quotes should have been cited as you know, but they weren't. >> ultimately, i'm the boss, and things go out under my name, so it is my fault. but i would say that people need to understand that i never have intentionally ever presented anyone's ideas as my own or

tried to pass off anything, you know, it started with a speech i gave where i gave atrib using to my left food, einstein, ray bradbury and others. i felt like i'm giving a lot of sources for every speech and because we don't have everything properly footnoted, i'm being attacked. and i think the standard is a little higher than everybody else. they're reading books cover to cover and looking for where we didn't have a footnote, did we make mistakes? yeah. i'm the first to admit i'm imperfect. but i do get offended when people try to cast aspersions on my character because i'm honest. i've never tried to mislead people. i've made mistakes, but that's different than trying to attack someone's character. >> every politician has aides

that help write speeches, what are you going to do? >> we're going to be more specific and footnote everything. we've never footnoted my speeches. 90% of my speeches are extame pranous. i do take this personally, and i don't want to be accused of misrepresenting myself, and i've never intended to do so. but we're going to be much more precise in the future. everybody believes chris christi will win. cuccinelli looks like he could lose. if in fact cuccinelli loses, chris christi wins, what does that say about the future of the republican party? >> every individual race is different, but i think the republican party is a big party. and we need moderates like chris christi who can win in new

jersey and our party. but we do need moderates like chris christi in the party. as far as cuccinelli, i like him. i hope he wins. in the last few days, it's gotten narrower because people are really unhappy with obama care, and he was one of the leaders. and when he sued, he said one important thing. he said if someone chooses not to buy insurance, are they committing an act of trade or commerce? and i think that point was well taken, because at the supreme court, ultimately they didn't rule on the interstate commerce clause and cuccinelli was very prescient in saying, interstate commerce is not just to buy this. and i think he won that argument on obama care. >> is chris christi the guy to beat for the republican nomination in 2016 in. >> i think there's room for moderates in the party. i think it will be more difficult, states like iowa are very conservative.

new hampshire is conservative with an a little bit of a leber tear yan bent. it's a tough road, but we need ideas. and we need a broader party in many ways. so i welcome him to the party and i think he's an important part of it. >> thanks as usually for coming in. >> senator rand paul of kentucky. still ahead, chris christie's exclusive interview with cnn. jeanne moos takes a look at the probably new first family of new york. my mantra? family first.

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son. son's arm around dad. husband hugging wife, dad hugging daughter, a four-way group hug. meet the de blasios. it sounds like a sit come. they've been high-fiving and blowing synchronized kisses. not only biracial, but de blasio's wife also used to identify as a lesbian. they have a dance called the smackdown. >> they did a weird gymnastic move that brought huge cheers from the crowd. >> reporter: enough to make a comedian beg. now never has a hairdo ever been overdone, not de blasio's hair, his son's. his fame snow balled when he

appeared in a commercial for his dad. even president obama commented on it, mentioning dante had the same hairdo i did in 1978. although i have to confess my afro was never that good. his sister pokes fun. >> security was ready to intervene. >> reporter: jon stewart went to adopting the afro. jeanne moos, cnn. happening now, a situation room special report, election night 2013 of the republican stars waiting for results. with the new jersey governor chris christi on his political future and the future of his party. >> the party's got to focus on winning again. you know, sometimes i feel like our party cares more about

winning the argument than winning the elections. can mccacauliffe regain the seat. and the obama care fiasco is weighing on the president. watch this. i'm wolf blitzer. you're this the situation room. we're less than one hour away from the first poll closings tonight. in high profile battles to control key states and big cities. voters in virginia, new jersey and other places across the nation, they're making their choices right now. the results could influence the fight for congress next year and the presidential race in 2016. we have our anchors, our correspondents. they're out in the field. they're covering the hot races and the big name candidates. let's begin with jake tapper,

who's been talking with the biggest name on the ballot today, the new jersey governor chris christi. how did it go? >> reporter: we got a lot of behind the scenes interview access with governor christi, who is highly favored to win reelection here today. the last three polls had him beating his democratic challenger, state senator barba barbara buono. he says he just wants to win something in the 50s. but obviously he has polled higher in some polls. what he wants to do is send a signal, a message to the national republican party about 2016 and why, if he runs for president, he should be their standard bearer. this is obviously a democratic state. president obama won her twice, the first time by 14 points. the second time by 18 points. the point that christie's going

to try to be making if he does very well here today is look at me, i can win over voters for republicans who seek the white house that john mccain and mitt romney had trouble winning over. that is going to be the point that he tries to make when if he wins tonight to the national party, wolf. >> jake's exclusive interview coming up shortly here in the situation room. thanks very much. let's get to the governor's race in virginia right now. it also has implications for 2016. it could be the closest contest in of the night. polls close at the top of the hour. dana bash is there. how does it look there? >> reporter: well, democrats here in the state of virginia are saying that, the commonwealth of virginia, we want to make sure we get that right, are saying they feel good about turnout, which matters on

every election day but matters even more here because it is an off year election. and for democrats in particular, they are hoping to really boost turnout in some of the high-density populated areas like where i am in northern virginia. you heard jake talking about new jersey where it's about a big personality. you mentioned terry mcauliffe. he is a long-time democratic operative, very close to the clinton, but you wouldn't know that if you were watching him on the campaign trail. he wants to make sure he is just about virginia. on the flip side, cuccinelli is someone who has been make being the point that obama care is horrible, and it is something that he was actually the first attorney general to sue against, and that that is really a referendum, he say, this whole race is a referendum on obama care, and they say if he loses, as the polls show looks like

it's going to happen, a big plus for democrats moving forward to 2014. let's go to the republican candidate for virginia. cuccinelli's headquarters. he's the tea party favorite. our reporter is standing by. what does it look like there, peter? >> reporter: well, it's pretty quiet right now here, and frankly it's probably going to stay quiet for most of the night. republicans have been bracing for a loss at the top of the ticket for weeks now. they're expecting about a mid to high single digit loss. there are a lot of factors in play. a lot of money has come into play. there's been a scandal at the governor's mansion. things have sort of tightened in the last couple of weeks as they really hit this obama care message home. and republicans are hoping a silver lining will come down. they think cuccinelli is going to lose, but there's a winnable

attorney general's race, and there's a number of races in the state house that they believe they can maybe pull some victories down ballot out tonight. but at the top of the ticket, republicans are bracing for a loss here. let's go to new york city where democrats appear to be on track to win back the mayor's office for the first time in more than two decades. don lemon is there. bill de blasio. it's been a long time since there's been a democratic mayor. it's about to change tonight. >> reporter: it's interesting in a city that is heavily democratic. i mean democrats outnumber republicans here 6-1. and to have, not have had a democratic mayor in 20 years is something. this is going to be the first, though. he is ahead, 65 to 24%. you can see the podium that they're getting ready for back

there, they're setting the podium it says on the podium, progress. he wants to usher in a new era of progressive governments. he wants to get rid of the controversial stop and frisk law. he wants to even the income equality. he wants to tax the wealthy, people who are making $500,000 or more. and he wants to limit charter schools. these are good old liberal policies that he ran on. and he appears to be on track to winning tonight. >> looks like a landslide, i must say, if you believe all the polls going into tonight. we'll check back with you. on this election day many democrats wish the obama care mess would simply go away. you'll notice that the president's wording of the tr e controversial promise is getting a makeover. what's going on? >> reporter: white house officials are refusing to admit the president got anything wrong when he used that line if you

like your health care plan you can keep it. even as conservative attack ads are being sparked by that line and democrats are becoming more frustrated with the entire health care rollout every day. as more democrats are calling on the white house to fix obama care -- >> i believe that there's been a crisis of confidence created in the dysfunctional nature of the website, the canceling of policies and sticker shock. >> reporter: the president has once again tried to fix the line he used to sell the law in the first place. before the law was passed, it was this -- >> if you like your plan, keep your plan. >> reporter: but last week, it was this -- >> if you have one of these sub standard plans before the affordable care act became law, and you really like that plan, you are able to keep it. that's what i said when i was running for office. >> reporter: and last night, it was this -- >> if you have or had one of these plans before the affordable care act came into

law, and you really like that plan, what we said was you could keep it. if it hasn't changed since the law's pass. >> reporter: while they aren't denying he is changing his words, they offer no apologies. so if the -- but republicans like mitch mcconnell are all but accusing mr. obama of lying. >> i think it's pretty clear what the president said is not accurate. and we have to assume that the president knew what he was saying. >> if you like your private health insurance plan, you can keep your plan. >> reporter: a conservative group is running this ad on social media, linking mcconnell's opponent in next year's midterm elections to the president. >> when liberals don't tell the truth, kentucky gets burned.

>> reporter: the other fire the white house is fighting is the implementation of the law itself. as new documents released by house republicans reveal, the war room was scrambling over the last month to confront mounting consumer frustrations. the government's navigators were seeing people very frustrated and walking away. all of which may impact those crucial enrollment numbers. earlier today, the head of medicare and medicaid who was overseeing the rollout of obama care said that the administration expected to see about 800,000 people enrolled bethe end of november, but another official at the white house cautions that is not the hard number that they expect to release mid november, but just to be sure, house republicans issued a subpoena today to the white house to the center for medicare and medicare services for those numbers, just to be sure that they get those numbers, wolf. they issued that subpoena, earlier this afternoon. >> there will be a lot subpoenas

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the new jersey governor chris christi is hoping to sail to reelection tonight. this could be the unofficial start of a republican presidential bid. jake tapper spoke exclusively with christi earlier today. >> reporter: in the final moments of his almost it guaranteed reelection tour, chris christi insists he's only focused on this campaign. it's also clear he's taking steps to address some of the questions that might nag a presidential hopeful. he recently had lap band surgery to help control his weight. >> how do you feel? >> i feel good. we're little bit more than halfway to my goal. in the last eight months. so that's really good. i sleep better. it's a great feeling. and it's hard work, but i feel

like, for the first time, in 25 year, i feel like i've got a path left, which is nice to the to be as frustrated as i was before. >> reporter: we spent the day with the governor. he's doing well, not just with republicans but also making inroads with traditionally democratic voters, such as women and minorities. your party's in a troubled spot right now. dick cheney said the party was in trouble and he was plugging his daughter. >> yeah. >> reporter: what do you think national republicans should look at when they look at this race versus virginia? >> i don't know about versus virginia because we don't know what's going to happen yet. >> reporter: it is going to be tight. >> it is going to be a tight race. sometimes i think our party

cares more about winning the argument than winning elections. if you can't win elections you can't govern, and if you can't govern, you can't turn the direction of the state, like we've done in new jersey we need to get focused on that. secondly, i think we forget that candidates matter. >> reporter: christi was one of the names on romney's list to possibly join his campaign in 2012. but there were unanswered questions about christie's background. >> reporter: if you were to look ahead, i can't help but think about this new book double down. i know you haven't read the book. but it seems very clear that when you submitted information, confidential information to the romney campaign when they were considering you for vice president, somebody violated that trust. and gave information to the authors of this book. i wonder what you think about that, about the fact that you

trusted these people and one of them clearly betrayed you. >> it's very disappointing. and when it first came to light a few months ago that it had been leaked, you know, mitt called me right away. and i could tell he was really embarrassed and outraged about it. and i think that's the kind of reaction that the person in charge should have. so i'm really des appointed that the folks would do that. i think it is a complete violation of trust, of me and the spirit within, within which i entered that process. which was, you know, beth myers couldn't have been clearer with me and mitt when they both spoke to me that only a few people have access to this, and it will all be returned to you afterwards. and no one will have an extra copy, and it will never get out. you know, now there's nothing in there that i have any huge problem with, all right, but it is a violation of trust. and it seems it only happened to me and not the other folks they

vetted. so that's a little troublesome. . >> reporter: do you think it's because of the tensions between some romney aides and some christi aides? >> i don't think there was ever any intention on our side, i'm now finding out that there was tension on their side. who knows why someone does something that's so violative of the process. you'll have to ask them. >> reporter: looking to tonight, governor christi hopes to win big. he wants to take a message to the national republican party to say he can win over minorities and well and make a case for 2016 should he decide to run. >> we'll see. all right, jake. thanks very much. up next, the chair of the democratic national committee,

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we're waiting for the first election night results. that's coming up. but let's talk about the stakes of what's going on today with debbie wasserman schultz of florida. she's the chair of the dnc. she's joining us from the he headquarters of terry mcauliffe. she has a new book, for the next generation, a wake up call for solving the nation's problems.

thanks very much for coming in. >> thank you, wolf. >> i know you and the democrats have been working very hard. but it looks like you just gave up in new jersey. not much support for the democratic candidate against chris christi. what happened? why didn't the president at least go in there and campaign for the democratic candidate? >> well, the dnc has been involved with barbara buono's campaign since the beginning of this year. we've had a staffer assigned to the campaign. we've helped her with digital and phone banking. and i went in to campaign with her. we've actually provided her, we sent some e-mail to help raise her money. so we've been there for her, pretty much every step of the way, but what we're focused on is we've got races all over the country. tonight we expect that we'll elect a democratic mayor of new york city for the first time in almost 25 years. we're very excited about the opportunity here in virginia and, you know, barbara buono is

an excellent candidate. we want people to make sure think get out and vote for her. and nothing svennished until the last voter casts their ballot. >> i was a little surprised. we didn't see the president, the vice president, bill clinton, hillary clinton, none of them really showed up to help the democratic gubernatorial candidate. it looks like you just gave up hope in new jersey which is a pretty democratic state. >> well, i can tell you that we have, not only have we not given up hope. but the polls are still open. and we really encourage people to go out and vote for barbara buono. she's the best candidate. if you look at chris christie's track record, his track record certainly doesn't square up with new jersey's values. and we're hopeful that when the polls close tonight that barbara buono will be successful. >> but if he wins in a landslide tonight, and all the polls indicate that is certainly possible, that puts him on a clear path, potentially, to the

republican presidential nomination, wouldn't you agree? >> you know, wolf, what i think the message after tonight will be is leading into the 2014 elections that the american people will elect democratic mayors and terry mcauliffe tonight as governor of virginia because they reject the tea party extremism. there's been a civil war rage being in the republican party. and the tea party has won. they shut the government down. they were willing to bring us to the brick of economic disaster. we will win the majority of these races tonight because the american people want to focus on getting job, the affordable health care act implemented and making sure we invest in education and our future. what the tea party has done is focused on really extreme agenda that the american people rejected last year when they reelected president obama and that they will consistently reject tonight with the election results when they come in. >> should, knowing what we know

now and obviously a lot of us are a lot smarter with hindsight, knowing what we know now, should they have simply delayed the rollout of the obama care website since it's been so flawed since day one? >> you know, the implementation of the affordable care act is more than just a website. and clearly the website needs to be fixed. no one was more concerned about this than president obama. but keep in mind, when the affordable care act was signed into law by the president in 2010, it kicked in a number of important reforms hike the young adults can stay on their parents' insurance until they're 26. children with a pre-existing condition can't be dropped. seniors have their prescription drugs much more affordable. and preventive care for women and seniors, like mammograms,

colonoscopie colonoscopies. >> we'll continue this conversation, congresswoman. we'll see what happens later tonight. thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. i'll be here throughout the night with updates on all the elections. in the meantime, crossfire starts right now. tonight on crossfire, an election with 2016 implications. is chris christi the republicans' best chance of broadening their base or ill ineighting it? >> after four years of me, if they don't know me, they haven't been paying attention? and what does it mean in virginia? on the left, van jones, on the right, newt gingrich. in the crossfire. what message are the voters sending today? and who